Hosch & Morris, PLLC is proud to co-sponsor and participate in the Dallas Bar Association’s Technology Summit, which is to be held in Dallas at the Belo Mansion on Friday, September 13, 2019 from 9 AM to 3:45 PM. You can register to attend here: www.tinyurl.com/dbatech2019

This week, we are back with technology tips to up-secure your internet browsing. Our post is inspired by this week’s announcement that Google and YouTube agreed to $170 million settlement to resolve allegations by the FTC and the New York Attorney General that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children.

This week, we are offering some practical advice about protecting your personal data, advocating for privacy by design and highlighting an announcement by Google’s Project Zero that illustrates the difference security and privacy, and why it is so important that we take steps to protect our personal data.

This week, a federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia wisely ordered the state to be ready to use paper ballots for the 2020 election, if it fails to meet a tight deadline to implement an entirely new voting system.

This week, we call out vendors of voting machines and software that are falling short on election security, as well the governmental entities that need to wake up before election results get changed (and not just by 11 year-old hackers).

This week, we consider the intersection of privacy and politics, and in the process, get apocalyptic about election interference, and apoplectic about governmental entities who contract without appropriate due diligence. Did you know that Georgia just awarded a contract valued at over $100M to a vendor who does not have a privacy notice on its website?

This week, we take on a privacy law hypothetical about how late-order inferences may be drawn and used to predict what you will like, will support or oppose, will vote for or against, willbuy or turn away.

This week, we continue our shift from current events to focus on data privacy rights, and in particular, the rights of access and deletion of personal information, and in doing so, consider the broader themes underlying privacy.

This week, we challenge privacy pacifists who say, “I have nothing to hide, so I have nothing to fear” with our counterargument, along with two recent articles about surveillance that everyone should read.